Who is Kim Bunker?

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the greeting. Its nice to be back ! Summer was fantastic... 
8400 kilometers of driving all over Europe... French Britany coast... 
Zermat and the Matterhorn in Switzerland, Berlin, Amsterdam... Koblenz 
on the Rhine... all with camping trailer pulled behind. Mixed in to all 
this was a week at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a bunch of 
very accomplished CAUT techs for the yearly Steinway & Sons seminar 
there.  Very interesting approach to learning and quite enlightening to 
see up close and personal how an all Steinway School actually 
functions... what they think of themselves and all the implications back 
and forth about being <<all Steinway>>. 

As far as the guy is concerned.... tongue in cheek from my part as much 
as anything else. I have to crack up a bit as the collective <<we>> on 
pianotech and what we let ourselves get all riled up about.  If there is 
an interesting bit to the episode (interesting to me anyways...) its 
that this kind of thing is a natural expectant... a result if you will 
of the US <<freedom>> concept.  One is actually very free to do exactly 
what that fellow does over there.  And in fact the PTG as an 
organization endorsed this freedom when asked some years back about 
regulating the industry if I am not mistaken. The same condition exists 
here in Norway... but not every place in Europe.  In Switzerland the 
industry is quite regulated... or was last time I checked.  In Germany 
it is also... but that is weakening.  In my experience the <<free for 
all>> approach is at best a double sided sword.... with the sharpest 
edge on the buyer beware side.  But thats just my thinking.  Regardless 
how  one approaches the subject tho.... ignorance is a self-breeding 
beast that even the best of the best find hard if not impossible to 
avoid being smitten by from time to time.

Cheers
RicB


    Ric:

    NIce to have the Northern European "voice of reason" back. Hope you
    had a great summer!.

    This guy's just an obscure footnote, but I still don't know who he
    is or if anyone in the vicinity of him know him.

    Cheers back at you.

    Paul

    "If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese
    fortune cookie)


        In a message dated 08/19/07 15:33:12 Central Daylight Time, ricb
        at pianostemmer.no writes:
        Hi Folks.  Hope you all had a wonderful summer. Mine was
        fantastic !

        I see life at pianotech is about where it was when I last logged
        on.....
        grin.  I mean you are talking North America right... the land where
        anyone can say and do just about what they want to and get away
        with it
        :)....  Let the guy rant on and dont bother about it.  He's
        going to do
        what... minus 12 degrees damage to the rest of us ??

        Cheers and long live Pianotech !